Bonds stronger than steel

Hinata, turned and stormed out of the arena, leaving Joshias team speechless, Akinel was trying and failing to pick his jaw off the floor, Sophia had chills down her spine, Akira wanted to go and hurt Joshia even more since he hurt her friend and Emi felt that Hinata was 10 times more interesting

He went to the cantina, sat down at one of the tables and chugged an ale, unfortunately for him, it takes a hell of a lot of alcohol to get him drink since he was a god. He composed his thoughts and noticed a slight change in his attitude, he felt that he was slightly colder, a bit more wicked, he questioned his own morality.

"hey handsome, mind if I sit?" Emi smiled softly as Hinata nodded and sat down next to him "listen" she started "I know that you've been through some hard shit bit hey, if you ever run out again, I'll slap you, you have a team now, you can rely on us....." she paused amd then blushed deeply as she said "you can rely on me, she rest her hand in Hinata's

"Emi, did you just..flirt?" Hinata laughed a bit and smiled brightly "that was adorable, you don't have the personality for flirting, I saw how shy you became" she went to get up cause she was so embarrassed but Hinata had interlaced his fingers with hers "wait, I wasn't finished, I'm sorry Emi, I'm just not accustomed to having anyone, I spent most of my life alone, I promise next time I'll remember that i have you guys, I'll remember that I have YOU" he emphasised that last word "good save Katamaru" she said and.resr hee head against his shoulder but you're not getting off that easily, she looked up at him, were all going to the market, you're coming with us, if you don't then" she whispered something into his ear

"Emi, you are absolutely evil. Fine, I'm coming with you."

she squeeled in excitement and ran to tell the others the good news

"That girl is going to drive me crazy I swear, but I like her, she's interesting to say the least" Hinata tapped those words into his wicked, he had kept logs on everyone he met, kind of like documenting how he felt about them amd what he thought about them, he would send them to his mom after they were complete so she could see that he was enjoying himself. after he wrote about Emi he sent it to Qian, 5 minutes later he got a reply "Don't have TOO much fun with her honey ;)" Hinata's face turned red "OMG. MOM!" he was stunned senseless, how could his mother be so shameless, the truth is he didn't see Emi like that at least not yet, however she was an amazing friend, A few minutes later Emi showed back up with the others

"I'll drive" they all went to the garage and Hinata started his car, it was the lastest model, six wheel drive, bulletproof, submersible, it was extremely comfortable on the inside as well as cold, Hinata had to raise the temperature twice, when they got to the market Everyone instantly fixed their eyes on a particular vendor, he had a variety of products from tech to jewelry, Hinata looked at them and decided to treat his team "everyone pick something, I'll buy it for you, consider it a welcoming gift to the squad"

everyone perked up when herring this and all started looking

"Hey Hinata, if it's not too much trouble, how about this modified wicked, it would make it alot easier for me to hack stuff", Akira said with a smile

"I know I said don't treat me royalty but you forget I still AM royalty, I can afford it, don't worry, plus i never really buy anything for myself so I have a lot of my money still saved up plus my anual income from various things"

the store vendor was taken back by hearing that the young man was royalty and decided to lower the price a bit as a "special discount" in hopes to get him to shop there again

"thank you" she said and strapped it on

"Oh my god, this bow is stunning" Sophia exclaimed hearing the words "oh my god" made Hinata chuckle bit considering a god was buying her it, he bought it for her and kept looking around.

Akinel went around to the side that said "custom items" and asked for a weapon that hw can channel his sound powers into, the vendor said it would take a while so everyone kept looking around Emi went to the custom section and asked for a heart shaped locket, a lot like Hinata's pentagon shaped one and then had the vendors assistant engrave her name into it, she took a picture with her team and out it in one side of the locket, leaving the other side empty. Hinata walked up to the vendor and asked for a weapon that would adapt to his progress and power.

"The vendor said it would take about 2 hours, let's go shop around while he does that" Akinel suggested

"I love that idea" Sophia said excitedly

they walked around the different stores for a long time and got lots of stuff, Nova found an outfit that he decided to keep a secret from everyone for the day that he transformed, if Emi was right snd he transformed when he turned 18. he also decided that the weapon would be kept secret so he asked the vendor to wrap it up in a really big case and paid extra for a high quality case, when they back to the vendor, Nova collected the weapon and Akinel out his on instantly and tried it out,

he thought of what he wanted to do and the sound was amplified and sounded as if it was coming from every inch of the air at once.

Satisfied with their loot, they turned to go to the car when a young boy who looked no older than 14, shoulder checked Hinata ans caused him to spill his drink on himself, the man then turned around and waked backwards while talking to Hinata "sorry looser, look where you're going next time"

I'm that instant, the boy felt an intense killing vibe from each member of the group and he walked back up "do we have a problem elf? do I need to put you on your knees",

the vendor turned to the boy and looked him the eye "Jackson, don't you dare pick a fight here"

"shut up old man, Saturn, this coward wouldn't dare to hit m-" before he could finish the sentence, Hinata slapped him hard across the face "show some damn respect"

the boy held his face and looked at Hinata angrily "do you have any idea who I am?" the boy said "IM JACKSON FREAKING SOLAR! DEMI GOD OF VICTORY! SON OF NIKE!"

Hinata's group looked at each other and laughed loudly then the boy tried to stab Hinata, the vendor and the Jackson's friends felt sorry for Hinata, thinking he was a dead man but Hinata grabbed the boys wrist, twisted it, spun the knife our of his hand and snapped the blade in half.

how dare a filthy elf like you attack me, he took out his wicked and called the royal guars of the elven kingdom, saying that he had found a filthy elven criminal and demanded that the royal family execute him or he would call them out for political bias

the boy was obviously talking complete bullshit but the royal guards responded anyways just to shut the brat up the elven kingdom was considered the highest ranking in the world yet arrogant and racist people like this boy, saw them.as rats, when the royal.guards arrived, Jackson pointed at Hinata and shouted to arrest him, once again his friends looked at Hinata and felt.sorey for him, but the vendor hsd heard about Hinata being royalty and figured it out.

the guards looked st each other unsure if they should bow or apologize and beg forgiveness but seeing as they hadn't done anything yet they bowed "your excellence" the captain said, Jackson was shocked and turned ro Hinata "who are you?" Hinata walked uo to the boy and grabbed him bt his shirt "My name is Hinata Katamaru, prince of the elven kingdom of droglenei, song of Queen Qian and the legendary hero Nova Katamaru and ghe God of Gravity" hearing his words made Jackson quiver in fear and he started crying "get out my sight, I'll make sure to tell your father what an arrogant coward you are"

Hinata, thanked the vendor for trying to help and gave him a couple hundred gold coins "thank you Mr. Saturn" he said and Mr. Saturn Nodded, Hinata and hus friends rhen left and headed back to the base, on the way there, they stopped off at a restaurant and got something to eat but then they each got a message on their wickeds, Hinata opened his and read it out loud

"to our dear students, we have decided to change the curriculum, We will be assigning you to a duo partner system after graduation, Squad leaders will choose their partner and after which the partners would be random"

they turned to each other and suddenly realised, graduation was next year, they didn't have much time before they got separated.

Hinata also realised that he would turn 18 next month in August, he didn't know what would happen to his body and didn't know if he could take enough memories in a year woth his new friends "what next?" he asked internally